Ongoing Picks

The Telephone Room, at 12 ½ sq. ft., is the world’s “second-smallest” art gallery. (What’s the first?) Accommodating only a rotary phone since 1930, the space has also welcomed art since 2009. Make an appointment at thetelephoneroom@gmail.com.

Some people see scrap metal where others, like Montana-based artist Butterfield, see majestic, larger-than-life-sized horses. Since the 1980s, she’s been constructing their graceful forms from found metal collected from wrecked cars, industrial salvage yards and demolished buildings. Her recent cast bronze sculpture is aesthetically similar but even more beautiful. It begins with sticks and plant material she’s gathered, which are fastened together onto an armature mimicking the posture of a horse. Grazing a gallery’s austere floors and blank walls, the bronze horses are almost literally invisible, and yet more than real. 

The new weekly comedy show on Capitol Hill that showcases some of Seattle’s best young comedy talent in a tiny, intimate venue is probably better than it has any right to be. Bonus: Thursdays at the Capitol Club are dollar taco nights.

Get thee to the Henry this month! A dark winter’s weekend will pass in no time among a myriad of new, closing and transitory offerings. Shows opening on Feb. 11: “Around the Bend and Over the Edge” showcases Seattle ceramics from 1964–1977; “Pollen and Paint: Laib, Homer and the Natural World” juxtaposes two Henry visitor favorites in celebration of the gallery’s 85th year; “Flashback” is a one-room companion exhibit to “Around the Bend,” which looks back at the art and fashion of the '60s and '70s. Wolfgang Tillmans’ lush landscape photographs in the Mezzanine close on Feb. 12 and from Feb. 2–4 media artist Maja Petrić and choreographer Jennifer Salk present “Eyes of the Skin,” a 40-minute dance/mixed-media installation on tenderness, featuring 15 dancers.